Dr. Christopher R Porter MD
Urologist
1100 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98101Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Christopher Porter is a Urologic Oncologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He received his medical degree from Rush University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois and wen ...
Education and Training
Rush
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center 1990
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Role of advanced 2 and 3-dimensional ultrasound for detecting prostate cancer.
- Urothelial neoplasms of the kidney and ureter. An epidemiologic, pathologic, and clinical review.
- Low AUA symptom score independently predicts positive prostate needle biopsy: results from a racially diverse series of 411 patients.
- Ultrasonic spectrum-analysis and neural-network classification as a basis for ultrasonic imaging to target brachytherapy of prostate cancer.
- Recent developments in tissue-type imaging (TTI) for planning and monitoring treatment of prostate cancer.
- Increasing the number of biopsy cores improves the concordance of biopsy Gleason score to prostatectomy Gleason score.
- Prostate specific antigen remains an independent predictor of cancer at prostate biopsy in black american men but not in white men: results from a consecutive series of 914 men.
- 25-year prostate cancer control and survival outcomes: a 40-year radical prostatectomy single institution series.
- Treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma: a review of surgical and adjuvant therapy.
- Prostate cancer-specific survival in men treated with hormonal therapy after failure of radical prostatectomy.
- An abnormal digital rectal examination is an independent predictor of Gleason > or =7 prostate cancer in men undergoing initial prostate biopsy: a prospective study of 790 men.
- Does the number of prostate biopsies performed affect the nature of the cancer identified?
- How useful is PSA velocity as a screening tool for prostate cancer detection?
- A nomogram predicting metastatic progression after radical prostatectomy.
- Seeing is believing.
Treatments
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (bph)
- Prostate Cancer
- Kidney Stones
- Enlarged Prostate
- Bladder Cancer
- Testicular Cancer
Fellowships
- Urologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York 1999
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